Friday 2nd May

Dear All,

Thank you for your work this week.

It has been lovely weather to celebrate Beltane and May Day morning. I trust you danced through the night and washed your face in the dew.

As April ended we waved goodbye to two of our project management team: Jackson Corey-Duff and Kirsty Waddell and to Martina Emmerich who was working with us on the Captioning Service (looking at possible improvements to automated transcripts/captions using AI) . Martina wrote a blog post about the work she has been doing – Correcting Academic Language with AI – Digital Learning Applications and Media and Ellie Kerr has been inspired to a career change How caption editing made me fall in love with Ophthalmology (and why I now want to do the Master’s I’ve been captioning for) – Digital Learning Applications and Media. LTW shaping lives.

Lesley as got the cleaners in for our annual deep clean of all the student PCs, mouses and keyboards. Yuck.

The museums teams have returned some more skulls University returns ancestral remains to Ainu people in Japan | The University of Edinburgh

Katherine has posted on LinkedIn about her most recent historic walk featuring the Ragged Schools (the ancestors of our OER and MOOC work) and the Stevenson sisters whose names we celebrate in our current projects FLORA and LOUISA https://www.linkedin.com/posts/katherine-scott-_our-april-theme-at-edinburgh-historic-walks-activity-7323982004327227395-GoZ3?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop&rcm=ACoAAAEcKs8B0sjwDFwVM5qMc-JgbweCVL4SJkc

You’ll remember Supporting Healthy Ageing at Work (SHAW) app, the Business School are now looking for beta-testers to trial their AI-driven health and wellbeing app, The era App is designed to support staff in identifying and tracking health and wellbeing issues, and in taking action via links to appropriate employer resources. If you are interested in testing the app then please see the attached participant information sheet, then sign up here.

If you like a bit of culture or couture, now is the time to grab your tickets for the ECA degree show, costume show and couture fashion show. Edinburgh College of Art Events – 18 Upcoming Activities and Tickets | Eventbrite

Congratulations to Scott on completing one marathon and embarking on another as a new baby joins his household. A marathon achievement for EDE’s Scott

Congratulations too to the two of you who have already completed your annual mandatory training ahead of MTD. Mandatory Training

Now that the results of the voluntary severance scheme across the university are becoming known, please do keep an eye out for key contacts in your projects and services who may be leaving. LTW ourselves will be losing colleagues with a combined total of more than 140 years of experience and wisdom.

Look out for dates coming for ISG Summer all-staff, LTW All-staff, leavers party and the (re) opening of the Eleanor Ormerod Training Room.

Have a good weekend,

-Melissa